Foreign

Three killed on remote Australian property

By Web News 5540

A manhunt is underway in northern Australia after three people were killed and another critically injured in a shooting on a remote property.

The shooting happened on Thursday morning local time on a cattle farm at Bogie in Queensland, authorities said.

Queensland Police have locked down an area surrounding the property as they search for the “killer or killers”.

The critically injured person – a man – had travelled “many, many kilometres” to raise the alarm, officers said.

The man suffered a gunshot wound to his abdomen and was flown to a hospital in the city of Mackay to undergo emergency surgery.

Superintendent of police, Tom Armitt told the media that the police are at very early stages of this investigation.

 “We do not know who is responsible,” he said.

Armitt explained that the victims have not been identified but are believed to be relatives of the injured man.

“Originally when the male person spoke to us, he was obviously in a distressed state,” he said.

Australia has some of the toughest gun laws in the world, introduced after a lone gunman murdered 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania in 1996.

Since then, there have been only three mass shootings – defined in Australia as those resulting in at least four deaths, excluding the perpetrator.

Supt Armitt described Thursday’s shooting as an “extremely rare event”.

BBC/ Oluwayemisi Owonikoko

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Crime

U S Based Nigerian Commits Suicide After Shooting Wife, Grandmother

By Web News 480

A Nigerian man, Obinna Igbokwe, on Thursday died by suicide after shooting his wife, Tangela, and grandmother in Texas, United States of America.

NBC reported that Igbokwe left home with his three-month-old son, after shooting both women in their heads on Wednesday.

Though the wife is critically injured and hospitalised, her grandmother died from the injury.

While on the run, Igbokwe dropped the child in a car seat at a local hotel.

When the police were alerted of his presence in the area, the suspect shot himself and died from the injury.

A statement from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday read, “On June 2, 2022, at about 12:00 am Detectives with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office were contacted by the Corsicana Police Department and advised they had Mansa Igbokwe in their care.

“Since the male did not return the Corsicana Police Department was contacted and learned the male left in a white passenger car, which they believed to be Igbokwe.

“Additional alerts were sent out to local Ellis and Navarro County law enforcement agencies alerting them that Igbokwe was in the area.”

Punch/ Oluwayemisi Owonikoko

Security

Reactions Trail Osogbo Shooting

By Web News 650

Security operatives in Osun State have given different accounts to the incident of sporadic gunshots by security aides attached to the Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola.


The Police said the Minister was moving around MDS/Orisunbare road in company of armed NSCDC, Correctional Service, Immigration officers and some suspected political thugs.


A statement by the Spokesperson of the Osun Command of the Nigeria Police, Mrs Yemisi Opalola, accused the armed Security aides of the Minister of sporadically shooting into the air without provocation, causing residents to scamper for safety.


Mrs Opalola confirmed that no casualty was recorded in the shooting spree, but a total of thirteen empty shells of G-3 assault and AK_47 riffles were recovered from the scene after Mr Aregbesola’s departure.


She promised to hint the public or details after due investigation.


However, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC Osun State Command gave another account alleging that some ” unknown hoodlums attacked the convoy of the Minister at about 6:40pm around old garage in Osogbo.


In statement by the Command’s public relations officer, Mrs Atanda Olabisi, the Minister’s security aides were able to repel the attack and brought normalcy to the area.
The statement gives assurance that the corps will continue to protect the people and make the state peaceful.

Adenitan Akinola

Crime

Amotekun Corps Shoot Two “Party Goers” Dead In Ibadan

By Web News 1006

Two young men have been allegedly killed by some officers of Amotekun in the early hours of yesterday, at Ajanla, in Oke-Ado area of Ibadan Southwest Local Government of Oyo State.

The deceased, Mr Abdullahi Ishola and Mr Rashidi Mudashiru including one Alaba Isa who was fortunate to have sustained injuries in the process were said to be at a party organised by some youths in the area to celebrate the eve of Eid-el-kabir.

According to the injured person, Alaba Isa, who claimed that he was shot on his back, the Amotekun officers had stormed their party and started shooting sporadically without asking anyone any question.

  • Alaba Isa who survived the encounter with gunshot wounds

Two younger brothers of the deceased, who were also at the party, Mr. Ibrahim Ishola and Mr Hassan Mudashiru maintained that the Amotekun officers suddenly stormed their party, which was an annual practice by the youths in the area and started shooting indiscriminately until they hit Rashidi and Abdullahi.

Head of family of one of the deceased, Abdullahi, Alahji Olayiwola Sulu-Ishola has called on the Oyo State government to thoroughly investigate the issue.

Responding to the allegation, the coordinator of Amotekun in Ibadan Southwest Local government, Mr. Sikiru Apanpa said the deceased and others were allegedly trying to rob a shop at the Liberty Stadium end of Oke Ado area when the security officers who were on patrol spotted them.

Mr. Apanpa explained that on sighting his men, two of the youths alerted others and they immediately started shooting at the officers.
He added that his men retaliated and two of the youths were gunned down in the process, while the dead and the injured were taken away by the survivors.

Radio Nigeria’s efforts to get confirmation of the incident from the Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Adewale Osifeso were unsuccessful, as he neither picked his calls nor replied to the text message sent to him.

Abisola Oluremi